Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-03-17

tcctives.
TuE Adams Express Company succeeds
the y. 4 o. on tho Ohio and Mississippi
railroad.
NEARLY eight thousand applications have
been filod under the recent Mexican war
pension law.
TuE Treasury Department will soon ar.
range for the supply of the active demand
for small notes
A STRANGE thing about Dale County,
Fla, is the fact that there Is not n public
road In the county
THERE will be an immense pineapple
crop on the Florida islands and mainland
the ensuing season. ftf
wTn no Congress 10 abuse, the para
grapher viii now have 10 turn his attcn.
tion 10 spring poets.
The Legislature of Tennessee has by n
decided majority refused TO pass O bill
making lynching felony.
HANNAH BArTERsBY, the fattest woman
before the public, weighs 7es pounds She
cats half pound of candy daily.
THE Government Fish Hatchery at Wash
ington ia now Matching 100000 white fish
eggs, tho fry 10 be placed ia Lake Erie.
The King OF Sweden has fiattcrcd Bis
marck by following his example and dis
solving Parliament because IL declines TO
obey his orders.
The estate of the late Cyrus n. McCor-
mick Sr., OF Chicago, foots up a total OF
more than s4,5o0.00O, the profit of the pat
ent rcaping machine.
A coUrLE named Blodget, at Gllr v, Cal.
have been married seventy-nine years
The husband Is ninety nine years old and
his wife ninety seven.
JUsTIcE GRAY is the only bachelor upon
the United States Supreme bench. He is
the largest man la the court, the baldest,
and Is famous epicure.
IT is rumored that Pobiedonostchieff is
10 be De Gier's successor as Russian Min
istcr OF Foreign Affairs. What a toboggsD
slide his door-plate would make, thought
LAST year tho people OF this country
smoked 500, ,5Ss cigars--an average Of
over fifty for every man, woman aud child
in the land. We are nation of smokers.
JIMMIE JuNE has seen the women Of all
nations, and has made up her mind that
Americas women stand at the head for
health, complexion, taste and good temper.
A PACKAGE mailed at Boston, for the
Prince OF Wales, is held at the dead-lettcr
officc, Washington, for postage. In appear
ance IL appears TO be an Internal apps-
ratus.
IT is estimated that thirty thousand fe.
males could find husbands inside OF fort
night In Wyoming aud Montana territories,
aud why the procession doesn't move is
mystery.
AsTATUg of Robert Burns is to be placed
IN Washington Park, Albany, In accord
nnce with the will Of the late Mary Nc
Pherson, who left 10000 for the purpose
last year.
GKoReE NJ. PULLMAN, the millionaire car
builder, is now SIR George, member OF
the Italian nobility and tho debtor Of King
Humbert for the honor Of being thus
knighted.
THg Peabody fund n.ondonJ now
amounts % s4553,3fO. Tho original gif
was s2,5O0OOO, the balance having been
added TO IL by the money received for
rent and interest.
THE name Of the new Consul 20 Mexico,
a Missouri gentleman, is Elizabeth Caro-
line Moore. He was named for his two
grandmotbers. His grandfathers seem 70
have been neglected.
THE most rapid cannon shots scarcely
reach speed Of 600 feet per second,
while mcteorites penetrate the air at the
rate Of twenty-five or thirty miles, and
even more, per second.
A GREAT dictionary promises 20
be the most porfDet yet cOllated-is now
being gotten up in New York. 70 be called
the Century Dictionary. II will require
the work Of one hundred editors for ton
years 70 put II in shape.
JUDGE GHAY, Of White County, Ark. was
putting on his wedding clothes the othor
day, preparatory 20 marrying Miss Mamie
Patty, when he complained Of pain 10 bis
right arm, called for water, and then ~.
most Immediately died.
PfrrsBuHoH possesses two wealthy littio
women In the Misses Stella Hayes and
Irwin Laughlin The former is fourteen
years Of age and ono Of four hcirs % q. 600.
90 left by her grandfather. Irwin Jaughlin,
ten years Of age, Is an orphan and sole
heiress to many millions.
RgxE RoBEHr CHgvALTER DE IA SAILS IL
20 have a statue in IN Cathedral Of Houen.
lie was the first explorer Of the great
lakes and the Mississippi, and founded the
French colony in Louisiana.
DuRfNo the life Of the Forty-ninth Con
Qress is2 bills were vetoed, or q more
than the total number Of bills vetoed from
the foundatiou Of the Government 70 tho
beginning Of that Congress.
IY no more birds are killed it viii take
period Of three generations Of mems lives
before the woods and pastures can be re-
pcopled. while some Of the most beautiful
aud useful birds arc lost 70 us forever.